Pirimelinae

{{Short description|Subfamily of crabs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Pirimela denticulata.jpg

|image_caption = Pirimela denticulata

|taxon = Pirimelidae

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Pirimelinae is a subfamily of crabs belonging to the family Carcinidae in the order Decapoda.{{BioRef|WoRMS|title=Pirimelinae Alcock, 1899 |id=148429 |access-date=22 December 2022}} It previously was treated as a family.{{cite journal |journal = Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume = 21 Suppl. |pages=1–109 |title = A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |last1=De Grave |first1=Sammy |last2=Pentcheff |first2=N. Dean |last3=Ahyong |first3=Shane T. |last4=Chan |first4=Tin-Yam |last5=Crandall |first5=Keith A. |last6=Dworschak |first6=Peter C. |last7=Felder |first7=Darryl L. |last8=Feldmann |first8=Rodney M. |last9=Fransen |first9=Charles H. J. M. |last10=Goulding |first10=Laura Y. D. |last11=Lemaitre |first11=Rafael |last12=Low |first12=Martyn E. Y. |last13=Martin |first13=Joel W. |last14=Ng |first14=Peter K. L. |last15=Schweitzer |first15=Carrie E. |last16=Tan |first16=S. H. |last17=Tshudy |first17=Dale |last18=Wetzer |first18=Regina |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/8358/iz_De_Grave_et_al_RBZ_Suppl21_2009.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y }}{{cite web |title=Pirimelidae |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/9007 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=5 June 2021 |language=en}}